Sound and Fury

2005–2008

In Sound and Fury Lehr placed his camera in a perpendicular position to the signage towers that lie at the entrance to shopping centers and strip malls. In the resulting large scale photographs the signage is transformed into abstract totems; quasi-abstract marks in the center of the picture – a hub around which the world of the picture revolves. The monolithic forms in each picture repeat like a heartbeat, suggesting both the rhythmic centrality of commerce in American life, and an underlying support system that is only acknowledged when it disappears.